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With the normal distribution of intelligence it is possible that many smart devices are already way smarter than their human hosts. I am serious. When you look at the decision making capabilities of many devices and the fact that many seem to rely on this capability it is clear that the human is almost redundant. The devices are simply colonising their human hosts.

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

YES. We have for all and everything an own word. it's much much more precise than english. i don't need to build sentence with 10 words to explain something, in germany we say 3 words and all is clear.

Not long back from a week in Berlin and was also amazed at how much and how quickly my German came back. Apparently my accent wasn't so bad

Most bizarre moment - managing to communicate with one chap in a mixture of Italian, French and German - he had very little German and even less English; I speak English, can just get by in German, have a little French, even less Italian.

Most embarrassing moment - staring blankly at someone totally unable to understand a word they were saying ... then realising they were speaking English (quite well too) ... erm ... my native language

i don't need to build sentence with 10 words to explain something, in germany we say 3 words and all is clear.

In English you can use the four letters "RTFM" to communicate very clearly when it comes to IT issues.
Unfortunately some people find this offensive and at times it's more important to not hurt people's sensibilities than to communicate clearly.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

and i am sure Mark Twain never seen such a language, because he was never in china or japan.
you got me?

i am sure Albert Einstein or Werner Braun has another opinion about this. And all the stolen scientists, after the second world war, too. I want to say Mark Twain can write good stories and thats it. i read some too, he was a very good writer.

but, at the end it doesn't matter wich language we speak. Important is that we can talk with hands ands feets

Another paradox since English is a Germanic language first and foremost.

There is of course the story of the simultaneous translator (into English) at an EU conference with the long-winded German speaker at the podium. The English listeners were a little surprised to find that at one point the voice in their ears simply stopped and there ensued a silence which was stretching into minutes before an exasperated cry of 'The verb, man, what's the **** verb?'